[3] The treatment of reflex epilepsy generally involves decreasing exposure to a person's triggers as well as anti-epileptic medications.
Reflex absence seizures are also common, especially in response to certain kinds of triggering stimuli such as light, proprioceptive, cognitive, emotional, or linguistic.
[6] Simple focal seizures do not involve the impairment of consciousness but instead may have motor, sensory, or autonomic manifestations.
[3] Photosensitive epilepsy is an abnormal sensitivity of the brain to visual stimuli and is the most common trigger in reflex seizures.
[3] Reflex seizures can be induced by both flickering or non-flicking light, television, video games, or other visual patterns.
Visual stimuli of a particular frequency (15-25 flashes/second), wavelength (red light at 660-720 nm), and high contrast have been shown to have a higher risk of inducing seizures in people who are photosensitive.
[3] People with musicogenic epilepsy may have seizures triggered not just by musical stimuli but also by the emotional content or memory associated with that melody or rhythm.
[3] Intrinsic stimuli are specific actions or activities performed by the person that result in a reflex seizure.
[7] The activation of the hyper-excitable areas of the brain is additionally regulated by facilitating factors that may increase the likelihood of eliciting a seizure.
[3] The diagnosis of reflex epilepsy usually includes a comprehensive medical and family history as well as a variety of tests.
[2] For example, in photosensitive epilepsy, some people may rely only on managing exposure to their triggers, while others, may benefit greatly from anti-epileptic drugs.
[2] In addition, different anti-epileptic medications may be used in order to treat a given person's reflex epilepsy depending on the kind of seizures that they experience.
LCD TV screens or Televisions with higher refresh rates (100 Hz) cause less flickering and thus lower the likelihood of a seizure.
[10][2] In addition, special blue lens Z1 glasses have been shown to reduce seizures in many people with photosensitive reflex epilepsy.
[10][2][3] Second line anti-epileptic medications include levetiracetam, benzodiazepines (such as clonazepam), lamotrigine, carbamazepine, brivaracetam, ethosuximide, and topiramate.
[3][2][10] More common in younger people Triggering seizures in epilepsy has been a phenomenon that has been observed since ancient times.
[8] The Apologia records instances of a spinning potter's wheel causing seizures in epileptic slaves.